The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 11, 1921, Page 7

ne See BO - TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, FARE PUT UP TO CAR EXPERT City Council Calls Witt to| Make Survey of Munici- | pal Lines | Peter Witt, famous traction ex pert, will be in Seattle within (wo weeks to make a survey of the | municipal railway and to de termine the feasibility of the pro- | Posed 5-cent fare ordinance. The city council Monday afternoon Adopted « resolution calling Witt to} nduct an investigation of the city's! meportation problems. He a | feorive $1,000 a week. ACTION IS POSTPONED ON 5-CENT ORDINANCE At the same time the counci! Poned action on the 5-cent casfare or @inance until the return of D. W Henderson, superintendent of the mu Ricipal railways, Henderson is now in the East making a study of street | Tailway conditions. He is expected to | return in about 10 days. Altho the corporation counsel's of fice has ruled that it is illegal for the city to own and operate motor buses, the council passed Councilman Car- Foll’s ordinance appropriating $50,000 from the railway depreciation fund to invest in motor buses for Cowen Park and Wher districts ‘The council passed Fitagerald’s or @inance calling for the issuance of $653,000 worth of utility boris for the purchase. of smaller cars, the re paving of First ave. ks and the Payment of $40,000 due on the deal hereby the Greenwood line was acquired WITT NATIONALLY KNOWN | AS TRACTION EXPERT Witt, who will spend eight weeks In Seattle studying the railway prob- Jem here, is nationally known as bed | transportation expert. He has been city clerk of Cleveland under Mayor ‘Tom L. Johngon, and street railway commissioner under Mayor Newton D. Baker, and was slated by the Johnson-Baker mayoraity forces to wucceed to the mayor's chair. Witt was defeated for mayor, and became a consulting traction expert. He has been hired to settle the street car problems of some of the largest American cities. He ts one of the ad- Visers of the Philadelphia Rapid ‘Transit Co. ‘Witt originally was an tron mould- er, a labor leader and a populist. MAYOR TO CONFER WITH “TAXPAYERS” Mayor Caldwell will confer Tues- day evening with Witmon Tucker and other counsel for the 14 tax- payers who went into court several months ago to prevent the city’s " fund being used to back up the municipal railway, was not announced, but is believed to be lined with the mayor's expressed determination not to permit the spe- cial utility bonds issued for the pur- chase of the street car system to Become a lien on the city. post | ‘The course in household manage. ment «at the Oregon Agricultural ‘college includes taking care of two "SALADA" TEI A. is in its unique flavour of rich delicacy: never varies. All grocers sell “Salada” in sealed metal packets only. D USE LESS 'HIGHTOWER'S | HERE’S MORE ABOUT ) Accused Charges Prosecu- led against the bootleggers who sup. SAME PRICE For over 30 years KGPp MILLIONS OF POUNDS BOUGHT BY THE GOVERNMENT 1921. THE alli itaeh tinned HERE’S MORE ABOUT SERIES STARTS ON PAGE ONE BRUMFIELD STARTS ON PAGE ONE CASE CLOSING . lntedesdt to present the state inne reaching tor With Intimidation | ori ateument. immediately to U"itancedtte Pack | owi the nvening of court feels Thee REDWOOD CITY, Cal, Oct. 1.—| today, and wiil call the first witness | PAY, Mrigeh stole nunonl. pine William A. Hightower, baker-philos | for the state head, Frisch scoring, Kelly wan out opher, accused of kidnaping and| ‘phe jury was complete at 4:30) stealing hang to Ward, Four murdering the Rev, Father Patrick | vestorday afternoon, In its fight |""Y 9 Heslin, was to resume the witness|o- q doren talesmen satisfactory | ke f stand as his own star witness at}ig its side of the case, the onse | fanned | today's session of his trial here. | used ita entire stock of 12 emp-| LS STORY or ltory challenges, while the had “DRUNKEN GREEK" lone of its six challenges left when ling . Hightower was called suddenly| goth sides accepted Frank Pringte, | tht ° oie late yesterday and retold the fan-| eikhead ranche satisfactory. | fouled 1 rn roed tastic story of the “drunken Greek.”} Had the state chosen to use its) Rawlings at second, eck una telling “Dolly Mason” how he} jst peremptory challenge it we a, Me Fens Ae SET OF killed a man” and left a “man al| have been necessary to call a third fanned. Ward i oM ways frying flapjacks” guarding the | apecial vortre | flied to B, Meuse, No runs, n ts grave Further delay in an already great-]"° °TTP* Qi aas pywing Hightower said that after hearing|}, delayed would have re Giante- noroft singled to left the story from “Dolly Mason” he | suited riach OT LG Pg Rancroft was doubled stealing hire |searched for the grave and found| A touch of the human factor (ANCrOTr Was dowel ed wie etaled te the last resting place of Father|came yesterday when news of the center, scoring Frisch, 1. Mousel Heslin near a sign picturing an old] death of Thomax Russell, aged plo-| filed to Fewster, One run, (wo hits miner frytng pancakes. reer father of Dennis Russell, was) VY tiktes—schang singled to Hightower declared flatly that wed in the court room, Dennis | te hawkey forced § Dolly Mason ix not a myth, but he| Russell's sister, Mrs. Fred Smith ft to Rawlings | did not clear her exact identity. with her two brothers, Ed and J hat Altho Judge Buck asked that/7 Russell, left at once for Boomer] court open a half hour earlier today, | p11, the Fussell family seat ' it was not believed that the trial of! ‘The prosecution hoped to produce | ShYder out, Pook to Pip. | Barnes the port. baker, philosopher and ad:| nennis eii's father in court to) hits, no errors mirer of women would end today.| cftet the influence of Mrs. Bruny | Yankees—Miller fl ed to Young. I In fact, it seems almost certain that | ¢ieid, whose loyalty to her accused | Meuse! fanged.” Pine ut 2 j the case will not be concluded until| mate is reganied as exerting aj’ ™ ut Thureday. powerful influence for the alleged As there will be no court tomor-| murderer | row, arguments will be made on] prequently during the proceed ‘Thursday. ings yesterday he touched her arm District Attorney Swart will urse| ina she responded by gazing up| | harfgtng for the alleged slayer at him with an adoring look which Altho he seemed slightly worrted| io well her belief in nis inno by the cross-examination yesterday, se Hightower was at no time in real) jp umficld early today apporent-/Lloyd George Inaugurates trouble. ly Was still unaffected by the im-| DISTRICT ATTORNEY minence of “Neuner’s ateam roller.” New Conference IS CHALLENGED As far as anyone can determine. Standing out boldly in all his tes} he looks forward to the peril of tne| LONDON, Oct. 11.—The Irish timony was Hightower’s intimate fing! days of the trial with the'peace conference met today at 10 charge that District Attorney Swart | came academic detachment which Downing st. for a brief, formal in is holding something over Doris|has marked his demeanor since his troduction seasion and adjourned. Shirley Putnam to compel her (© | arrest in Calgary. { The Sinn Fein delegates were testity. “ | ae —— jhailed by cheering, fiag-waving “I know something about Doris,” | Parents’ Night” at cae ta latormation tou are) U Thursday, 8 P. M. probably holding over her head to| “This meeting alma to brihg the! t make her act the way she has.” | university, with its ideals and prob-|” Greeted by cheering, the Irish This shot into the dead silence of | lems, into closer contact with the delegates, five in number, drove up the court room caused a stir. | parents of high school students who to the prime minister's residence in etd led | expect soon to enter the university.” tne narrow little street of White crowds both when they arrived and departed from the conference cham bers and were to return at 4 o'clock The morning sexsion adjourned at 1 m. he said; “but I will never tell it.” “What is it? Swart asked REDWOOP CITY, Cal, Oct. 11.) reads a letter sent to parents of Fiat and were received by Lloyd Jay Harry Dunlap, private detec | Broadway high school seniors Mon- George. tive, signed a long affidavit last | day The British delegates, a cabinet night stating that his charges that| The letter refers to the “Parents committees appointed by the prime | William Hightower did not kill| Night” assembly at Meany hall, on! minister while in Scotland, arrived Father Heslin, were not true, Dis-| the campus, Thursday at § p.m. It shortly before the Sinn Fein plent triet Attorney Swart said today | is signed by W. H. Curry, president Dunlap recently sought the arres* of the senior class. All parents of; of a man in the San Francisco jail! university students and of high charging that be and net High | school students who later will enter tower killed the priest. His affi | the university, are invited to come.| davit disproves the charge, it President Henry Suzzalio will ex- pong plain at the meeting aims and prob- lems of the university, potentiaries. The latter came to Downing st. in 4 luxurious Iimousine and made their way with difficulty thru the crowd The conference which today was Most formal in nature, opened short ly before noon, Lioyd George intro- duced the Irish plenipotentiaries to his colleagues of the British cabinet, and in a brief speech welcomed the ‘Hear Pleas Today [visiting delegates and outlined the MOVIE MURDER } for Pontoon Bridge possibilities of the confegence, } 1 Arthur Griffith, Sinn Fein foreign | A hearing of pleak for the plan! minister, responded, jto place @ pontoon bridge across! Austen Chamberlain, former chan fang Washington is scheduled be-!aetior of the exchequer, who was to ..,| fore the county commissioners at 4 /nave been one of the British dele Girls or Booze Makers Will meeting at 2:30 p. mM. today! rates, wan taken suddenty iil, and Be Held All advocates of the plan are re-lwas unable t t t ‘ quested to be present. Different!ferenee S tehd today's con- plans will be considered and reports| ‘sir Gorton Tewart, attorne: o yor 4 'y gen LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11.—A mur. | trorm Engineer Thomas R. Beeman 'eral, was present in his place. der charge may be preferred today | Will be read. The first real business of the con in the case of Al Stein, movie com ers eaneaiegee |ference was not expected edy director, who died following | “wild party” in his apartments here. \Posed as Federal An autopsy and inquest are to be) Booze Agent, Charge ae vee en's hety, | Alleged to have posed as a t-| Railroad Labor If it develops that he died of] .4; prohibition agent, converting | i poison, Pei ee pra dll ig aun | the liquid proceeds of liquor “raids” Votes for Strike wees , be Cocene ty Eemered 4 CHICAGO, Oct, 11.—Armed with “4 I _Beliwin | to his own use, Dan P. Lewis, form were living with him and nov |¢r private detective of Cle Elum.|_ vote which shows 80 per cent of railroad labor in favor of a strike, were living with bite and he sree was held Tuesday by the United} George teatth Beant | States marshal. union railroad labor leaders here to day mobilized against further in George Smith asserted Leeds and Xenia roads in the pocketbook of workers. tomorrow, ‘The murder charge may be switch Union leaders, it became known, vith liquor, hawever, role cob yt th in South England | are ready to go to the mat with the if the Inquest proves that death was | caused by improperly prepared) LONDON, Oct. 11.—WilliamLeceds, | "lroad executives who meet here whisky. heir to the American tinplate mii.|¥tiday and who, It was believed cer- Prohibition Agent Dan O'Leary | ions, will spend his honeymoon with |) will announce further wage re was Investigating the source of| Princess Xenia, of Greece, in southern | *uctions Stein's liquor supply today while /ingiand. They will drift thru the! Cc Ta RBs om aa Preparations were being made for the | picturesque inland waterways near inquest. the coast. The couple arrived in 1921 Record of England yesterday | Pedestrians Hit Seattle Invited to | by Aubocnnifies Tour the Navy Yard Tour the Puget sound navy yard at Bremerton in style! 586 H. Hanafusa, Japanese Word deisel ‘thé Chamber at 315 Maynard ave., alighted Commerce Monday that the Bremer. |ffom a street car at Third ave. and ton chamber has arranged for a guide| Pike st. Friday afternoon and at- thruout the winter. There will be tempted to cross the street against =the charm of ‘ (Bir conga tire pai the traffic rignal. He was struck ial b dynant nae > - a lby a car driven by Wm. Robinson, 03 Madison st., knocked dowh and Parent-Teachers of [signe rulaea Interbay Will Meet Mrs, Jude Whedin, 1814% 58 The Interbay Parent/Teachers’ a niet Wednesday aft.| Sixth ave., alighted from a And It . sociation will street car on & ond ave. and was ernoon at 2:45 at the Interbay /struck and knocked down by a car school. A talk on music will be/driven by Frederic BE. Dunham, 115 esse liven by Mrs. W. W. Beck. Re-|Retlevue ave. N. She was taken to freshments will be served |the city hosp where her injuries slight were found to 588 N. Waugh, while crossing the street in company with his wife at Fourth aye. and Pine st wheel of the car passed over his foot, bruising it, eee A school girl, about 10 the way of a car driven by Harold R. Stein, 6707 Aurora ‘ave, as he drove into the university grounds, back of the gymnasium, Saturday evening. The car paswed over the child's legs, but she was apparently uninjured. Stein took the little girl home in his car. A group of ¢ were playing and did not see ear approaghing . Larry 612 k i | mn | | | owder lin front of his home Saturday eye ing just in time to struck by a |passing automobile driven by W. W. Ewing, 200 Alaska buliding. The child was te to the Providence \hospital, where his injuries were found not to be of a serious nature. aos Sy the - a 20th et Evoy Ounces for 45 i J. W. Murphy, night clerk at the Winonia bh , was . . atruck by @ utomobile driven by than of higher priced brands hae iss Chats, Sawa diy afternoon. Murphy dodged across the street ahead of an.oncom- ing street car and found himself dl ly in the path of an automobile, yhen the automobile struck him he clung to the front of the machine, saving himself further injury. Nakadanamaeiear et me iw Ankh oe SEATTLE ‘SAYS KU KLUX al ny today. This, it was indicated, would be aia Saturday evening, stepped too eld to a passing auto driven by Alex| Milanoski, 5536 Canfield place. One Se eee STAR GET $30,000,000 Imperial Wizard Appears Before Congressmen | | | JAMES 'T WASHINGTON, clals of the KOLBERT y | il Offi Ku Klux Klan have cob $30,000,000 Oct lected — approximately from their 500,000 fellow member upon which the government has re ntative celved no tax return, May Ttepre declared rules commit to Tague, husetts house | da whiet to decide whether con | toe | hall investigate the organiza | Tague sald he arrived at the fig ures from information furnished by | the Kian officials Wizard William Joneph {the Ku Klux Klan, ap the house rules com dy to defend his “in- | Imperial Simmons, | peared mithes today, re ble _pmpire He @eclined to make any state | ment before taking the witness stand, other than to say he was suf: | cold | fering from a severe | The house rules committee be Ja preliminary inquiry of the m J order, to determing whether a spe cial he mmmittee should be ap pointed to investigate its workings Just before the rules committee met, Chairman Campbell, Kansas stated that if any evidence were pre- sented in the hearings today indicat | ing the Klan was operating in viola tion of federal laws, a complete in vestigation of the order would be ap-| proved by his committee | Campbell worked late Into the night with Attorney General Daugh erty, agents of the department of justice and inspectors of the postof partment, going over evidence cted within the last few weeks in & geeret investigation of the Klan. He dectined to make any statement regarding the evidence. | | “We do not want to prejudice charges against the Klan,” Campbell maid resentatives of the order | will have a fair hearing before the committee. HARDING SEEKS - BIG. S. FLEET, |Figures on Heavy Indirect} Subsidies for Marine BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Presi dent Hardin ts seeking some pieans jby which heavy indirect subsidies | may be put into effect to get » huge fleet of American ships on the high Sean again, it was learned today. | He and Chairman Lasker are agreed, it in maid, that financial aid from the government, largely thru indirect mubsidies, is necessary to put life into the American merchant ma- | rine. | The plan of Secretary of Com-| merce Hoover to stimulate coal min-| ing by the shipping board. leasing idle ships to coal exporters at the! nominal fee of $1 a month, probably | will be discussed at the cabinet meeting today, it was learned “| the department of commerce. ~ | HERE’S MORE ABOUT JUDGE LINDSEY STARTS ON PAGE ONE }, the rich.” The success of the 18th amend |mont depends, Judge Lindsey said, on the “wealdhy, and favored class in this country accepting a respon. | sibility which is now being ignored.”| They must be willing to give up| their pleasures and abide by the law intended for the good of all, he de-| clared. “They have not set the example. “The theatres, jokesters and paro- dists are encouraging making a mockery of the constitution of the | United States.” The “conspiracy of the rich” in |exerting their influence on news-| | papers and officials to keep news of raids on wealthy men's cellars sup pressed was scored by the jurist. On Friday of last week, Judge | Lindsey refused to sentence to jail three young men for giving a drink of liquor to two girls, He declared | he would not “punish poor men| | while the rich men of Denver are receiving and dispensing liquor without restriction.” Saturday night Judge Lindsey | stampeded a public mass mecting of citizens called to discuss the illegal liquor traffic in Denver by de the “double standard” methods of enforcing prohibition laws, Denied recogriition by the chairman of the meeting, Judge Lindsey leaped upon a desk and de-| livered a speech that brought the! crowd to its feet cheering wildly, He arraigned Henry M Blackmer, | Denver millionatre, in whose garage police found thousands of dollars worth of liquor last week. Ag a result of the speech a “rock bottom probe of bootlegging activities of | Denver's rich as well as poor” has| | been promised by the district attor-| ney's office, nouneing |Expect to Arrest | Man as Murderer! | Ohio, Oct. 11,.—Police | DAYTON, today expected to arrest, within 24 urs, the man who mysteriously murdered Lucien A. Soward, promi nent attorney, in his office here, Soward was found stabbed to death late yesterday. His office showed he had battled furiously with his assailant. The steam radi- ators were torn from the walls, telephone wires ripped out, furni. ture upturned and blood spots mar. . |red the walls, WATER snutorr Water will, be Rainier ave. between Fontanetle | st. and Kenyon st. on Wednes. | | day, from 8 a, m, to 12 noon, {a ‘Notice shut off on | =— FUNERAL SERVICES for Mrs. Clara D. Williamson, who died Mon. day at Providence hospital, were Mrs, Williamson was the wife of C. A. 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Featured in these colorings: Navy Brown Red C ey Aluminum | Percolator Special $1.00 © S pictured, Percolator — of seamless alumi- © num, with ebonized wood — handle, hinged cover and jf glass top. Six-cup size, if Exceptional value at —Housewares Section, THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE ‘15 FIRE “SMOKE VICTIMS! Takes $10 and 284 Tokens| Chicago Hay Warehouse at 2 a. m.; Walks Awa’ A lone bandit riding as a passen-| ger on a street car he intended| m, Tuesday morn- robbing, at 2 a, y Loss Is $50,000 CHICAGO, Oct, 11.—Fifteen fire men were overcome here today in a fire at the hay warehouse of the Union Stock Yards and Transit Co. ing, held up Conductor F. F. FOX) he loss was Geroebhatel Sta on a Rainier ave, ear’ 000. The robber, after relieving the! ‘he fire wilt amoulder for at least conductor of $10 in cash and 284] two woeks, officials believed, car tokens went on his way at 1 ts v er st. Tieoons ee Fox immediately re| DETROIT, Mich--Herman F ported the robbery to the police, VETERAN Gunthar Carlberg, 61, died at held Tuesday at St. Joseph's church. | home, 6315 21st ave, N, W., Monday Carlberg after an Mines of 10 days. was @ veleran real estate man, \ REALTY MAN DIES Rademacher confesses to throwing wife into Detroit river, where she drowned, his ST. PAUL, Minn.—Mrs. James J. Hill, widow of railroad magnate, eritically ill NEGRO BURNED. AT THE STA ‘Texas Mob of 500 | Accused Man LEESBUURG, Tex., Oct. 11 ‘ie McNealy, a negro, was b | the stake here last night by @ jestimated at 500, after he had taken from the Mount Pleasant and brought here in an auton i MeNealy had been indicted for attempt to assault and an : to murder FUNERAL SERVICES © BABY LUCIA MARIE, who @ result of an alleged on the part of Mrs, Ivy Osborn, held Monday afternoon, + of light in a year,